Sport: Sweeps' End

In the summer of 1930, two Irishmen of the Old Soda bookmaker and a
politicianput their heads together and figured out a scheme. They
would run a lottery on an English horse race, ask the Irish Free State
to sanction it, give a fat chunk of the proceeds to impoverished Irish
hospitals. R. J. Duggan, the bookmaker, had experience: he had run
sweepstakes before. Joseph McGrath, the politician, had a flock of
friends: he had been Minister of Labor under President Griffith. With
the Bail's consent, Duggan & McGrath formed the Irish Hospitals'...